Sentences with phrase «between levees»

«Suddenly, you've got a lot more water that has to flow between the levees.»

The tiny prefab shack 2014 cluttered with mounted fish, piles of antlers and a wolf pelt Keller bought in Alaska 2014 is wedged between a levee that holds back Missouri River floodwaters and a new oil well, topped by a blazing gas flare.

HALF WAY between the levee and the Granite Construction gate, there is a dirt road that goes off to the east (right)

Maybe the CPR folks are outstanding lawyers, but either (A) they don't know the difference between a levee breach and levee over-topping or (B) they don't want the readers to be able to differentiate between the two.

Not exact matches

The third collaboration between Morrison and acclaimed guitarist / composer Bill Frisell, the film chronicles the most destructive river flood in US history, which saw nearly 150 breaks in the Mississippi's levees, flooding of 27,000 square miles, the deaths of 250 people in seven states, and damages estimated at over $ 400 million.

Created in 2004 as a collaboration effort between a municipality, Homeless Cat Network and the community, the program balances the humane treatment of the cat population and the needs of the City and users of the levee / pedway that they live beside.

Decommissioning the Levee Road to restore the natural function between the creek and floodplain.

The first landscape hotel in Europe is situated in the farmyard of Burtigarden farm at Alstad in Valldal, on a steep, natural levee in between birch, osp, pine and age - old boulders.

Its location is the batture, the area between the river and the levee.

What are the biggest differences between the situations the last time this levee was opened and now?

I got some sobering input on the threat of major levee failures along an area called the Middle Mississippi Region (a 200 - mile stretch roughly between Saint Louis, Mo., and Cairo, Ill.) from Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geology at the University of California, Davis, who has extensively studied flood risks there.

But, Katrina's high waters just made it over the levee, and the difference between «just over» and «not quite over» proved to be a lot of billions of dollars and human disruption.

Over the years the levee network drained the wetlands that sat between it and the ocean.